18 November 2008: IPv6Now and StudentNet
Collaboration: Anywhere, Anytime
NEWS RELEASE FROM IPv6 NOW PTY LTD AND STUDENTNET
A school's football team goes to compete in the interstate finals. Play
by play, the game is reported on a website, with the students back home
following keenly, only seconds behind the action.
Is this website on an expensive hosted server? No it's on a student
laptop, in the stands at the football ground, hooked into the Internet
via the local club's wireless hotspot.
How does it work? NextMail, that's how.
StudentNet is excited to announce a major innovation for NextMail school
accounts. With the help of IPv6Now, each NextMail school now has their
own collaboration address range, from which every teacher and student
has their own domain name and globally accessible IPv6 address.
New possibilities for interacting are available now. All from within a
managed network.
Every school, every student, every teacher can make content available
simply and directly. Collaboration is easier than ever before. School
administrators gain even more control without extra cost or effort, all
using the school's existing infrastructure.
StudentNet director Kevin Karp explained that enabling collaboration was
the goal. "True collaboration requires global accessibility. The
school's collaboration address range grants it the accessibility and the
control. Products are already appearing that take advantage of this
address capability Microsoft Vista's Windows Meeting Space, for
example."
"This is one of the things IPv6 was made for", said Tony Hill, Managing
Director of IPv6Now. "It makes all the problems and restrictions that
IPv4 address scarcity has forced upon us just go away. A personal
website on your laptop, for example, would normally mean mucking about
with technical configurations such as NAT and port forwarding. Doing it
on a roaming laptop is basically impossible for the average IPv4 user."
Each NextMail school will be getting an IPv6Now "Grow6" network. "We are
reserving a /48 prefix for each school", said Kevin Karp. "We're
providing for over 65,000 subnets. Just one of those has been set aside
for what we are calling the collaboration address range. There's plenty
of room for growth!"
For more information on IPv6Now and StudentNet, see:
www.ipv6now.com.au
and www.studentnet.com.au
Contact details:
IPv6 Now Pty Ltd (ACN 126 460 955)
PO Box 152
Civic Square ACT 2608
Email: info@ipv6now.com.au
Web: www.ipv6now.com.au
Phone: +61-2-61616607
Background to StudentNet:
StudentNet is committed to serving the education community as
a provider of quality network services at a commercially competitive
price. It has provided innovative network solutions to the education
sector for over 12 years. StudentNet introduced its NextMail range of
collaboration products in July of 2008.
Phone: +61-2-92811626
email: info@studentnet.edu.au
Background to IPv6Now:
IPv6 Now Pty Ltd supplies commercial services to
business and government, covering all aspects of IPv6, including strategic
advice, technical training, network design and testing, and dual-stack hosting
for websites, domain names and email. IPv6Now also provides access with
guaranteed service levels to the IPv6 Internet, via Australia's first
commercial tunnel broker. The company's main offices are in Canberra and
Sydney, with offices in Melbourne, Brisbane, South Coast NSW and regional
Victoria.
Background to IPv6:
IPv6 is the next generation Internet protocol. It will eventually
replace IPv4, which the Internet currently runs on, though there will
be a period where both are in use. IPv4 addresses are expected to run
out in about 2011. IPv6 uses a 128-bit address, meaning that it can
provide an extraordinarily large number of addresses. See
www.ipv6.org.au (which incidentally was the first IPv6-accessible
website in Australia and is now hosted on an IPv6Now dual-stack
server).